Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ohio Senate passed the Beal local option bill, making it a law. Fire destroyed nearly a block of the business portion of Mesa City, Arizona, causing $250,000 loss. Congressman M. E. Benton was renominated nt St. Louis by the fifteenth Missouri Democratic convention. Fire in Kansas City destroyed the building occupied by the National Paper Box Company, entailing a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. University of Minnesota defeated the University of lowa at Minneapolis on the question of United States’ retention of the Philippines. Wisconsin Supreme Court hns declared unconstitutional the Inw imposing tax on ice shipjM’d from the State. Chicago companies test case. Ma yor “Golden Rule'’ Jones of Toledo returned froth hl* Pacific coast trip lookng haggard and woru, his condition causing his fricmls much uneasiness. Congress of Disciples of Christ at Cleveland elected as president Professor lames Hall of Butler College. ludiunnpdis, and decided to meet next -year at Des Moines. C. CL Nelson, who was brought to St. loseph, Mo., from San Antonio, charged with bigamy, pleaded guilty to having

three wives and was sentenced tn the criminal court to three years in the penitentiary. Everett C. Baker of Terre Haute, Ind., former cashier of the bank of Harrisburg, 111., attempted suicide by jumping into the Mississippi River at St. Louis, but the interference of the police defeated his purpose. Mrs. William Small has donated $50,000 to establish an old ladies’ rest in Leavenworth, Kan., which is to stand as a memorial to her late husband, William Small, who was a pioneer merchant of Leavenworth. Captain Morse, chief signal officer of the Department of California, received orders from the War Department to open negotiations for the installation of a system of wireless telegraphy between army stations in Alaska. Louis Kauffield, a well known glass manufacturer of Matthews, Ind., after experiments covering two years, announces. that he has solved the mystery of making malleable glass, long considered one of the lost arts. The safe of the Bank of Brazile Mills, Neb., was blown open and SI,OOO in cash and S7OO in drafts stolen. There is no clew. After making their haul the burglars stole a team from Sanford Saunders’ barn and made their escape. Senator Jarnos K. Jones, twice manager of Democratic national campaigns, and trusted friend of William J. Bryan, suffered ignominious defeat in the Arkansas Senatorial primaries, carrying only five counties out of fifty-five. Two thousand persons escaped from Pike Opera House at Cincinnati while fire ranged in two floors beneath them and the auditorium was filled with smoke. Women fainted on the street after danger from panic and flames was passed. Miss Jessie Morrison, whose bond was. nullified when the State Supreme Court granted her a new trial recently on the charge of murdering. Mrs. Olin Castle, her rival, surrendered to the sheriff at El Dorado, Kan. She was placed in jail. A pitched battle occurred between two half-breed Indians, George and John Curtis. and two farmers, James Smith and William Thompson, near Minco, in the Choctaw nation. Smith was seriously wounded and George Curtis died from his wounds.

At Arkansas City, Kan., the Rev. Granville Lowther formally refused to accept the proposition to cease teaching his doctrines, and the Methodist Episcopal trial committee declared him guilty of heresy. This means dismissal from the church. Many cattle on the Colorado plains are in a pitialde condition tor want of water. Water holes in Morgan County have been fenced in by owners of small herds and other cattlemen whose stock is shut off from that water are threatening to take retaliatory measures. Fire destroyed the greater part of the business section of Hoople, N. D„ entailing a loss «f about $50,000. Among the buildings destroyed were Echelberg's general store, Unanberg’s general store. C. C. Vick & Co.’s machinery warehouse and Diment & Co.’s drug store. Articles of incorporation were filed at Pierre, S. I)., for the Federal Railway Company at Rapid City, with a capital of $18,000,000. Incorporators: William T. Coad. Charles D. Mattison and -J. B. Henry, Rapid City; Joseph 11. Muhlke and Forrest O. Murdock, Chicago. Two electric cars on the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway collided near Sag Bridge, two men being killed and several injured. A washout had made it necessary for both the north and south bound cars to run on the same track, and disregard for orders caused the collision. Osteopatliists were given official recognition in Ohio by the passage of an act in the House for a committee to examine osteopathy and to regulate the practice of that system of curing human ills. Osteopathists are not to be permitted to practice surgery or administer drugs. The Ohio Senate has adopted Wirt’s joint resolution, granting the citizens of Columbus the right to occupy sufficient space near the Hight street entrance to the capitol grotffids to erect -the proposed memorial to the lute President McKinley. The memorial will cost $20,000.

George Engle, a farmer living a short distance from Toledo, Ohio, was mortally injured by an infuriated bear. He was repairing a broken place in a pig sty when the boar attacked him and threw liiui to the ground. The man was so seriously injured that it is not believed he can live. A corps of Southern Pacific surveyors and engineers hits just completed the survey for the new tunnel through the Sierras, which will be one of the longest in the world, or five miles and SIS) feet. The proposed work will cost millions of dollars and will consume years in construction. George Busch, aged 16 years, nnd George Young, aged 20, sons of respeotable parents of Trenton. Mo., made an unsuccessful attempt to wreck east-bound Chicago, Rock Island mid Pacific passenger train No. 12. Their motive appears to have lieen revenge for having been put off a freight train. Mrs. William McGuire nnd Modesto Sanches, her brother, of Cheyenne, Wyo„ have fallen heir to a fortune by the death of their grandfather in Santa Ftigus. Mexico. Mislesto F. Sanches was one of the wealthiest sheep and cattle men of his section, his fortune being estimated at from $700,000 to $1,000,000. The nuked body of Sntnuel Collins, with his throat cut, was found by boys in a cave north of Salt Lake City, The police say it is a case of suicide; others think that Collins was murdered and his body thrown into the cave, the entrance of which was partly closed by rocks, Collins at one time was wealthy. Western Reserve University in Cleveland dedicated for the use of its women's college a beautiful chapel. It is the gift of Mrs. S. V. Harkness of New York and L. H. Severance of ('levelund. a* a memorial to Florence Harkness. It is the twelfth building which the university has dedicated within recent years. William Hlckox, a wealthy farmer near Garrettsville, Ohio, was found murdered in the wood* close by his home. Ho had been out gathering maple sap and was shot through the head. Ilia dog led a searching* party to where the body was found covered with brush. Robliery. It Di thought, was the motive’ of the crinye. Danny Rosenbecker. 13 years old, was arrested for the murder of 7-year-old Arthur Shanteau. The parents of the boys reside on adjoining farms two miles from

Toledo, Ohio. Rosenbecker says that Shanteau called him a name and attempted to strike him with a club, whereupon he retaliated by striking Shanteau with a butcher knife. By means of a wooden key six prisoners escaped from the St. Louis workhouse after ten hours’ work in breaking their shackles and opening the inner and outer doors of their cells. The escaped men, three of them still wearing chains, climbed the rear fence of the workhouse grounds and took a skiff to the Illinois side of the Mississippi. About $50,000 worth of sealskins were seized in Seattle, Wash., by the local United States customs officers. The capture was made aboard the schooner J. B. Ward, which arrived from Unalaska.Two hundred and twenty-six skins were consigned to local houses. They are Bering Sea product and Deputy Collector Mitten believes they were taken by pelagic sealers. Coroner Blott at Youngstown, Ohio, acting under instructions from Prosecuting Attorney Gibson, has stopped investigation of the wreck on the Pennsylvania lines in which four employes were killed. Prosecutor Gibson said that the object of an inquest is to ascertain whether a crime has been committed; that under the laws of Ohio negligence is not a crime.